Birds from the White Nile 



by 

 L. A. Jagerskiold. 



It is my intention to give, in the following pages, a mere 

 list of the birds shot or observed by us on our journey along 

 the Nile. I am fully aware of the fact that it will not be a 

 complete list of the avifauna, but I trust a few fieldnotes and 

 dates concerning the geographical distribution of the species 

 observed may prove of some interest. 



Of the species marked with * no specimens were shot, but 

 as most of them are familiar to me from my shooting trips in 

 Scandinavia, I have no doubt as to their correct identification. 

 Of a few species, mostly European, specimens were shot and 

 determined but no skins preserved. They are marked with f. 

 As ours was by no means a "skin expedition", we gave every 

 first specimen collected of the birds to our friend and guest 

 Dr. Walter Innes Bey, who collected for the Natural History 

 Museum of the School of Medicine at Cairo and who super- 

 intended the skinning of our specimens as well. Thence it 

 comes that skins of many birds, even tolerably common ones, 

 which happened to be shot or preserved only once, are wanting 

 in the Upsala Museum, though they are to be found in the 

 collection of the School of Medicine at Cairo. Such specimens 

 are marked smc an d have, as a rule, been determined by Dr. 

 Walter Innes Bey; only numbers 31, 39, 45, 49—51, 58, 90, 113 

 and 128 are revised by myself. Prof. Reichenow of Berlin has 

 been kind enough to ascertain that no. 12 really belongs to 

 Ploceus dimidiatus. 



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